[Ads-l] Syntax tragedy of the day

[Joel Berson]

Might this be misusing "technique" instead of "technician", which he was?

Another distortion in the crawl:


He didn't actually reuse the syringes himself; he replaced new, unused syringes containing Fentanyl "in a work space" with used syringes.

Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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 Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 8:15 AM
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CNN crawl:

"Hospitals employed a surgical technique who's accused of reusing
syringes...."

JL



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